One person was dead and a second wounded after violence broke out at an Airline Drive motel Sunday afternoon, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said.

STAFF PHOTO BY ELIOT KAMENITZJefferson Parish Sheriff's officers investigates the scene where one person died and one was wounded during violence at the Cinema Hotel on N. Labarre at Airline Highway Sunday.

The incident occurred about 4:45 p.m. at the Cinema Motel, 2935 Airline, near Labarre Road.

One person died and another was shot, sheriff's spokesman Col. John Fortunato said. It was not immediately clear if the person who died had been shot or otherwise wounded.